Which of the following is not associated with first Five-Year Plan?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → High-yielding variety seeds
Option (1) High-yielding variety seeds Not associated (Correct). The First Plan’s agenda was dams and irrigation, land reforms and a higher national income; high-yielding variety seeds were no part of it.
Option (2) Investment in dams and irrigation Associated (Incorrect). The First Plan addressed mainly the agrarian sector, including investment in dams and irrigation, such as the Bhakhra Nangal Dam.
Option (3) Increase national income. Associated (Incorrect). One of the basic aims of the planners was to raise the level of national income.
Option (4) Land Reforms Associated (Incorrect). The Plan saw the pattern of land distribution as the main obstacle to agricultural growth and focused on land reforms.
NCERT (2025-26): “The First Five Year Plan … The First Five Year Plan (1951–1956) sought to get the country’s economy out of the cycle of poverty. K.N. Raj, a young economist involved in drafting the plan, argued that India should ‘hasten slowly’ for the first two decades as a fast rate of development might endanger democracy. The First Five Year Plan addressed, mainly, the agrarian sector including investment in dams and irrigation. Agricultural sector was hit hardest by Partition and needed urgent attention. Huge allocations were made for large-scale projects like the Bhakhra Nangal Dam. The Plan identified the pattern of land distribution in the country as the principal obstacle in the way of agricultural growth. It focused on land reforms as the key to the country’s development.… The First Five Year Plan … One of the basic aims of the planners was to raise the level of national income, which could be possible only if the people saved more money than they spent. As the basic level of spending was very low in the 1950s, it could not be reduced any more. So the planners sought to push savings up.…” |